Seachem excel potentialy kill my plants

[Wrona0306]

Hi everyone
I was face big bba booom in my planted tank and was try everything to battle them. Start from adding Siemensis algae eater, incrising co2, lower strenth of light, reducing from 8h to 6h light, changing water 2 time a week but nothing work. My lava rock, most plants was cover by bba so i decide to take all my live stock out of tank and drain all water. I use seachem excel to spray everything inside tank and leave for about 30min, then i add water and live stock back again ( no dead fish and shrimps) but next day i realise my plants lost color and start malting so i decide take out plants from tank and cut off 75% of plants and plant back only roots(roots are healthy white color) list of plants
Alternathera reinickii mini
cryptocoryne undulatus red
Rotala bonsai ( trimm and replant back)
Rotala hra ( lost color, trimm and replant)
lilionsen brasiliensis,hemiantum tenellum green,sagittaria subulata (melt)
Eleoharis sp mini (everything ok)
Anyone know to roots will bounce back or i will havtu buy new plants.

 

[MacZ]

It's widely known that Glutaraldehyde (and whatever several companies are putting in their "liquid carbon" nonesense instead now) kills Vallisneria and generally it is just a useless additive and even better known to be dangerous to livestock. So any die-off of plants and animals is not unexpected.

If any it's useful as an algicide if used punctually, not extensively.

By using it to treat your tanks surfaces you disinfected everything and pretty much destroyed the biological balance of your tank. I think a complete re-do (except the filter media) is advisable.

 

[Wrona0306]

Thanks for advice but i will try recover after my mistake ( we learn from them)
Will give this tank 1month and will see.
Just add pic what i potentialy destroyed

 

[MacZ]

I'm not saying you should leave the hobby, but a tabula rasa is probably better than patching up things that can't be patched up anymore.

 

[86 ssinit]

Great looking tank!

Yes excell is known for killing plants and sometimes even fish. As Mac said it’s an algicide. Many have had problems with it. I’ve used the api version but not as you did. It needed to be added daily. It did work but certain plants didn’t grow with it.

Bba is a continuous battle. SAE will eat it but you have toget them small and qt them with just bba to eat. Once they start they will always snack on it. Peroxide dips of ornaments and plants can also be done. Shrimp will also eat it. And separate shrimp tank is a good way to clean off plants and ornaments too.

some plants if the roots are good will grow back. But it may take longer than a month.

 

[FishDin]

It will damage even anubias if the plant is not submerged when you apply it.

 

[diamonfingers]

Can't you get rid of algae with using snails and pleco? How about floating plants? UV light?

I do not understand how algae keeps coming back the tank is heavily planted, I thought algae is caused of excess nutrients in the tank. Plants take nutrients -> no chance for algae to grow.

 

[Wrona0306]

Thanks everyone for they opinion and advice

 

[TClare]

I have a large low tech densely planted tank, it has been running for about 20 months. In that last few months a lot of BBA has started to appear, but it is mainly on the wood and rocks which I don't mind. So far it has not attacked my plants except for a few old leaves that were already past their best. I have not tried to do anything about it except remove a couple of old Amazon sword plant and lotus leaves that were affected. In this tank I used to have a lot of small ramshorn snails, but now there are hardly any, I think the angelfish and/or Laetacaras must have been eating them. I don't think snails will eat BBA but they do constantly clean the leaves and hardscape so maybe help to prevent it getting established in the first place, I am not sure but maybe.

In any case for you I agree that it would probably be easier to start over rather than try to save the plants you have left.

 

[diamonfingers]

I have a large low tech densely planted tank, it has been running for about 20 months. In that last few months a lot of BBA has started to appear, but it is mainly on the wood and rocks which I don't mind. So far it has not attacked my plants except for a few old leaves that were already past their best. I have not tried to do anything about it except remove a couple of old Amazon sword plant and lotus leaves that were affected. In this tank I used to have a lot of small ramshorn snails, but now there are hardly any, I think the angelfish and/or Laetacaras must have been eating them. I don't think snails will eat BBA but they do constantly clean the leaves and hardscape so maybe help to prevent it getting established in the first place, I am not sure but maybe.

In any case for you I agree that it would probably be easier to start over rather than try to save the plants you have left.

why do you get algae even if you have highly planted aquarium? are you over fertilizing?

 

[ProudPapa]

I suspect the results depend on water conditions. I've used it for quite a while with no apparent harm to any of the inhabitants, including corkscrew val.

 

[TClare]

why do you get algae even if you have highly planted aquarium? are you over fertilizing?

No, I only add fertilizer very occasionally. I think some algae is natural and unavoidable. My plants in general are healthy and not affected by algae.